Word: cellistic
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When the Philadelphia Orchestra settled itself on the stage at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, Cellist Elsa Hilger suddenly became so excited that she could scarcely get down to business, even when Conductor Leopold Stokowski appeared, commanding instant attention for the opening Handel overture. Cellist Hilger had spied the instrument being used by her desk-mate, Cellist Victor Gottlieb. It looked like the $10,000 Guarnerius which had been hers until two years ago when it was stolen from a taxicab...
...best U. S. woman's orchestra owes its existence to Lillian Poenisch, a fiery little spinster who plays the clarinet; Adeline Schmidt, a white-haired flutist; and Lois Bichl, a cellist noted for her great good-nature. These three wanted to play in an orchestra but knew they stood little chance of being admitted to an established symphony organization. To start a band of their own they collected $1,000 from Samuel Insull, an equal amount from the late Julius Rosenwald, persuaded Richard Czerwonky of Bush Conservatory to be their first conductor...
...Although Cellist-Conductor Hans Kindler has had trouble enough making a go of winter concerts with his four-year-old National Symphony in Washington, he determined to put on a summer season. He persuaded the National Park Service to shoulder one-third of the cost ($35,000). He hurdled union obstacles. From the Navy Department he begged and borrowed a coal barge which was towed up the Potomac, anchored by Arlington Memorial Bridge. On this was built a big grey acoustic shell. One night last week Conductor Kindler and his 80 musicians marched up gangplanks to the barge, played Wagner...
...then as a "cultural Bolshevist" who in his early operas had used librettos not in the spirit of the German "world outlook." He was flayed also for having married a Jewess, for once having played chamber music with Jewish musicians, for having made phonograph records with a Jewish 'cellist, a Jewish violinist...
...called by his friends "the Jewish Hamlet," because of his lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional cellist wife, Nancy Wilson, makes him embarrassed about his inferior skill...